ST. LOUIS (USBWA) – For the second time in three
weeks, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association
has selected the Oklahioma guard Buddy Hield as its Oscar Robertson
National Player of the Week for games ending the week of Sunday,
Jan. 10. The USBWA's weekly honor is presented by Blue Ribbon
College Basketball Yearbook.

Hield

As the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week, Hield was nominated
for the weekly award, which was chosen by a representative of the
USBWA board of directors from a list of Division I conference players
of the week. This is the seventh season that the USBWA has selected
a national player of the week.

Hield, a 6-4 senior from Freeport, Bamahas, averaged an
astounding 38.5 points in two games last week to go along with
8.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game. He shot a sizzling 64.9
percent from the field, including 60.9 percent from 3-point
range.

Heild started the week with one of the best games in Big 12
history, finishing with 46 points, eight rebounds and seven
assists at Kansas – the second-highest scoring effort in
conference history and the most for an OU player since the
1990-91 season. It tied for the most points by a Division I
player this year and marked just the 19th time in the last 20
years that anyone had finished with at least 45 points and five
assists in a game. He then posted 31 points in 32 minutes in a
win over Kansas State and has scored at least 20 points in eight
straight games and now boasts six 30-point outputs in 2015-16.

Since the 1958-59 season, the USBWA has named a National Player
of the Year. In 1998, the award was named in honor of the University
of Cincinnati Hall of Famer and two-time USBWA Player of the Year
Oscar Robertson. It is the nation's oldest award and the only
one named after a former player.

At the conclusion of the regular season, the USBWA will name finalists
for the award, which is voted on by the entire membership. The winner
of the Oscar Robertson Trophy will be presented
at the College Basketball Awards on April 11, 2016,
at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
The Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award and the
Integris Wayman Tisdale Freshman of the Year Award
will also be presented at the gala to be held annually following
the NCAA Men's Final Four.

The U.S. Basketball Writers Association was formed in
1956 at the urging of then-NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers.
With some 900 members worldwide, it is one of the most influential
organizations in college basketball. It has selected an All-America
team since the 1956-57 season. For more information on the USBWA
and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, contact executive director Joe Mitch
at 314-795-6821.

Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, the most comprehensive
college basketball publication in the world, returns for its 35th
season. Blue Ribbon – long-known as "The Bible of College Basketball"
– gives its readers the most thorough, up-to-date and timely evaluations
of every Division I team in the country. For more information about
Blue Ribbon Yearbooks, visit
blueribbonyearbookonline.com.